| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvi, 454 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Introduction; A Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Torquato Tasso; THE LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM; Appendix: Tasso's Liberation of Jerusalem in Literature, Art, and Music; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Proper Names |
| Summary |
Tasso's epic poem concerns the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, and combines the theme of war with romantic and magical tales of love between pagan and Christian. This is the first modern translation that faithfully reflects the sense and verse form of Tasso's hugely infuential masterpiece. - ;'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he too |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxii) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100 -- Poetry
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| SUBJECT |
Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100 fast |
| Subject |
Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English
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Crusades -- First, 1096-1099 -- Poetry
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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Crusades
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Epic poetry, Italian
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| SUBJECT |
Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 -- Poetry
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| Subject |
Middle East -- Jerusalem
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Poetry
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wickert, Max.
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| ISBN |
9780191567582 |
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0191567582 |
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